Great tip on those pass through Mike. They are a pain in the rear!. I have a Service Monitor that is full of them. It quit working years ago......Thanks for sharing.
Personally it doesn't matter to me. Work is work be it replacing one part or a hundred. I just don't like to see people pay more to repair a radio than is practical. Usually what I do in cases like this radio is suggest that they find another radio and keep this one as a parts chassis.
DSB??? This is a single sideband radio. Probably the best radio SBE ever built. Excellent receive and transmit audio made perfect using their "Speach Spander" compression module. The only reason this one has issues is probably because it was stored in a non climate controlled enviroment (attic) and has gone through countless heat cycles that caused excessive board expansion and contraction causing the pass thru's to all but rip out.
I imagine if the unit was my very first radio and it had tremendous sentimental value that it might be worth the cost of having a tech repair that PCB properly...but practically speaking I'd have to guess that the cost must far exceed finding and buying a number of similar units just to cherry pick a good one. 'Course the corollary to that is they may ALL have the same problem to the extent they're all unusable.
I have never seen one with this many bad pass thru connections. Might have been stored in a garage or attic and has gone through a lot of drastic temperature swings.
+ab5ni Their not unobtanium. The 200 I purchased last year were new manufacture. As fast as something becomes obsolete the Chinese start making it. I got a smoking deal buying them in bulk from UT Source.
They made excellent radios. The Console V was a premium top of the line radio. I think this one lived in a attic or garage and went through a lot of drastic temperature changes over its life. Thats probably what caused the problem with the pass thru solder connections.
Great tip on those pass through Mike. They are a pain in the rear!. I have a Service Monitor that is full of them. It quit working years ago......Thanks for sharing.
Mike,
I feel your pain. I bet your hoping that the repair bill will dissuade the customer. :-)
Personally it doesn't matter to me. Work is work be it replacing one part or a hundred. I just don't like to see people pay more to repair a radio than is practical. Usually what I do in cases like this radio is suggest that they find another radio and keep this one as a parts chassis.
Sounds like a pain to deal with! But when it needs to be done! What's the name of that screwdriver, I needs to get some. ~Jack, VEG
Had to watch the video to see what you were talking about. Its a Pro's Kit ceramic screwdriver.
www.proskit.com/screwdrivers/ceramic
Oh, oops...I guess I coulda been a little more non descript! Thanks! (I sure hope they come in gold flavor! :) ) ~Jack, VEG
I have NEVER once owned one that worked right... They ALL have issues.. damn DSB radios.
DSB??? This is a single sideband radio. Probably the best radio SBE ever built. Excellent receive and transmit audio made perfect using their "Speach Spander" compression module. The only reason this one has issues is probably because it was stored in a non climate controlled enviroment (attic) and has gone through countless heat cycles that caused excessive board expansion and contraction causing the pass thru's to all but rip out.
I imagine if the unit was my very first radio and it had tremendous sentimental value that it might be worth the cost of having a tech repair that PCB properly...but practically speaking I'd have to guess that the cost must far exceed finding and buying a number of similar units just to cherry pick a good one. 'Course the corollary to that is they may ALL have the same problem to the extent they're all unusable.
I have never seen one with this many bad pass thru connections. Might have been stored in a garage or attic and has gone through a lot of drastic temperature swings.
Wow... what a pain in the ass.
The "Speech Spander" board will fail and the chip is unobtanium!!!
Not if you have a stockpile of them like I do. :)
+ab5ni
Their not unobtanium. The 200 I purchased last year were new manufacture. As fast as something becomes obsolete the Chinese start making it. I got a smoking deal buying them in bulk from UT Source.
note to self: stay away from SBE
They made excellent radios. The Console V was a premium top of the line radio. I think this one lived in a attic or garage and went through a lot of drastic temperature changes over its life. Thats probably what caused the problem with the pass thru solder connections.